Stew for Lunch Stuff 8-22-2012

Word of the Day

FASTIDIOUS

archaic : scornful

a : having high and often capricious standards : difficult to please <critics … so fastidious that they can talk only to a small circle of initiates — Granville Hicks>b : showing or demanding excessive delicacy or care c : reflecting a meticulous, sensitive, or demanding attitude <fastidious workmanship>

: having complex nutritional requirements <fastidious microorganisms>

Examples of FASTIDIOUS

He is fastidious about keeping the house clean.

She was too fastidious to do anything that might get her dirty.

My mother had always been the most fastidious and organized of people—a wet ring left on her coffee table by a glass could drive her to distraction. —John B. Judis, New Republic, 14 Oct. 1996

Bozo Criminal of the Day

He Should Have Taken an Ice Chest, Too

Bozo criminal for today comes from the International File in Aktobe, Kazakhstan, where our unidentified bozo stole a 14-pack of beer from a store. In a classic case of his eyes being bigger than his stomach, he drank 8 bottles and then returned to the store to give back the other 6 bottles that he no longer wanted. No word on whether he was planning to ask for a refund, as he was promptly placed under arrest.